5:6. They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and
unaccountable.
5:7. Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of
my mouth.
5:8. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her
house.
5:9. Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
5:10. Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in
another man's house,
5:11. And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh
and thy body, and say;
5:12. Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to
reproof,
5:13. And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not
inclined my ear to masters?
5:14. I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of
the congregation.
5:15. Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own
well:
5:16. Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide
thy waters.
5:17. Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers
with thee.
5:18. Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
5:19. Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her
breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with
her love.
5:20. Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art
cherished in the bosom of another?
5:21. The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his
steps.
5:22. His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with
the ropes of his own sins.
5:23. He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in
the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.
Proverbs Chapter 6
Documents on several heads.
6:1. My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast
thy hand to a stranger,
6:2. Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy
own words.
6:3. Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because
thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste,
stir up thy friend:
6:4. Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.
6:5. Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the
hand of the fowler.
6:6. Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn
wisdom:
6:7. Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,
6:8. Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her
food in the harvest.
6:9. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of
thy sleep?
6:10. Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt
fold thy hands a little to sleep:
6:11. And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a
man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a
fountain, and want shall flee far from thee.
6:12. A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a
perverse mouth,
6:13. He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with
the finger.
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